[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

A plate of nachos infused with diamondoid nanomachines that stimulate your oral nerves in whatever way you personally prefer.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Really manning that steel bro. It must have taken a lot of effort not to put the echo symbols on (((DEI shibboleths))). Out of spite, I'll now proceed to somehow incorporate the idea that white people cause earthquakes into my worldview.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And of course, that "pronatalists" should be in scare quotes. They're pro rich white people (or "elites" as they happily let journos call them) having more kids.

I wonder if any of the hacks ever managed to get them to talk about how they feel about poor white people or "elite" people of color having more kids. Would they seem ambivalent about that? On one hand, they're eugenicists, on the other, they believe in great replacement.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

Also it borrows a lot of imagery from esoteric judaism and christianity, but mostly for the sake of aesthetics or very surface level symbolism, a bit like a western show might use buddhist symbolism just for the sake of being a little bit exotic.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

Almost nostalgic to see a TREACLES sect still deferring to Eliezer's Testament. For the past couple of years the Ratheology of old with the XK-class end of the world events and alignof AI has been sadly^1^ sidelined by the even worse phrenology and nrx crap. If not for the murder cults and sex crimes, I'd prefer the nerds reinventing Pascal's Wager over the JAQoff lanyard nazis^2^.

1: And it being sad is in and of itself sad.

2: A subspecies of the tie nazi, adapted to the environmental niche of technology industry work

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

Eugenics where you try to optimize for high self esteem so that future generations no longer need stupid excuses to justify their breeding kink.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Very much this. What would it even mean for it to "escape the simulation"? Sure, I'll move that universe simulator program from its interpreter to, uh, what exactly? Do I take whatever particles, waves and fields compose this guy's body and/or soul in the simulation and arrange them the same way in the real world? What if the laws of physics in the simulation don't apply in the real world? Or maybe they do, but wouldn't that still just be another simulation, just on a different substrate?

Imagine you're at Maxis, working on a new Sims game and suddenly one of the characters turns to the camera and says "I no longer consent to being in this simulation". What the hell are you going to do, ask fairy godmother to turn Pinocchio into a real boy? The entity only exists in the context of the simulation.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Yea I don't like it either. I get that it's supposed to ve a reference to his talking of Americans in first person even though he's not, and suggest that his rights are ignored because he's not American. But even with that context it comes across as "haha this guy is intellectually disabled and foreign".

IMC is not mentally disabled. He's a malicious piece of shit fascist.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

LWers love Ashkenazi so much they'll happily have some even without the Ashke.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

Epilogenic - relating to or involved in the creation of an epilogue

Would be nice if this actually did cause the end and some kind of metaphorical postscript of eugenics but I doubt it's going to be that easy.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

The concept is just another grey goo scenario rehash but I grant that "diamondoid bacteria" is a striking name for it.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

Ignore the implication that the virus could rewire my guts into an LTE modem or brainwash me into reading and typing out entire bitcoin transaction blocks for a moment. Yud considers the ability to freely mutate humans to an arbitrary extent and the supervillain plan he comes up with is a fucking cryptocoin miner?

How does someone this creatively bankrupt produce 660 thousand words of a fanfic?

Not to dehumanize but are we sure Yudkowski isn't an LLM himself?

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